we had a very similar thing to what happened in sandy hook in 1996. i was an editor of a newspaper at the time. children 5 years old got kill bid a maniac. and there have been no mass shootings like that since, and no attacks at all in a school. i have been completely baffled by what happens here in the aftermath of endless mass shootings. when i first started at cnn two years ago, it was a week after gaby giffords was shot and many others lost their lives. since then, we had the sheik temple shood shooting, and so on leading up to sandy hook. there's a lot of words, talk and absolutely nothing gets done. and the last three mass shootings, i just realized a few days ago, aurora, the oregon shopping mall, and now sandy hook all involve young men in their early 20s all with the same weapon, ar-15. now, my brother is a british army colonel, i know a bit about guns, an ar-15 is not a harmless hunting rifle as some of these gun guys want to put it. it's a very high-powered assault weapon. it's a military weapon and it can fire if you have the right magazin